MEXICO CITY Mexico said today it's optimistic a major breakthrough could be on the way, granting legal status to some of (m) millions of its undocumented citizens in the United States. Mexican President Vicente Fox's spokesman says "there are a number of positive signs pointing to the possibility" of the kind of bilateral migration deal Mexico's been pushing for since 2001.
Ruben Aguilar's comments come as Mexico heads into a pair of high-level meetings with President Bush's administration. That includes a trilateral summit with Canada next week in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, Mexico.
Barring such an accord, Aguilar says Mexico at the very least believes a guest-worker program for hundreds of thousands of Mexicans could be approved by the U-S Congress.